StarWind VTL (Virtual Tape Library)

Description

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is an appliance that eliminates the need in physical tape and “pretends” to be a supported tape drive or autoloader, keeping all data on inexpensive, fast and high-capacity spinning disks. Even with explosive data growth, StarWind VTL fits the backup into backup window by accelerating it, so the process does not overlap with production time. Optionally, it creates additional copy of backup data for better safety. It is also available in a software-only form, as part of StarWind VSAN functionality.

Product Reviews

Starwind's VTL to Backblaze B2 is working well for us.

We were manually transporting ~20TB of data across multiple hard drives in a Pelican case before deciding to take our off-site backup to the cloud. We already had a Veeam server so we figured we could replicate or duplicate our veeam data to a cloud storage provider like Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3. We looked all over and could not find a native tool or a way to do it with veeam - until we found Starwind's VTL to B2 software.

What are the pros?

Just the fact that we can use Veeam and offload our backups via VTL to Backblaze B2 is the biggest pro. B2's storage is dirt cheap and this has already saved us a ton of time and is well worth the one-time investment as it's paid itself many times over from dead drives, transporting/shipment, and finally got us away from doing the old school sneakernet backup for good.

What are the cons?

The initial setup was quite technical and myself and my operations manager had to RTM several times. But it's not so much a con as Starwind actually were very, very helpful with our questions and they responded super quick each time.

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